Is This The World's Hardest Tongue Twister? See For Yourself

Go ahead, try to say it ten times fast. I gave up after a few maddening failed attempts and proceeded to beat my tongue with a hammer.

The slippery sound sequence proved so difficult for test participants to say that lead researcher Stephanie Shattuck-Hufnagel said “If anyone can say this phrase ten times quickly, they get a prize.”

The study, which was presented at the Acoustical Society of America in San Francico, sought to use tongue twister struggles as a way of understanding how the brain processes pronunciation. In an awesome PR move, the study was titled “Tripped Tongues Teach Speech Secrets.”